Britain’s Got Talent 2014: Results & Videos

Britain’s Got Talent 2014 Final just ended. 11 acts performed. Classical boyband Collabro took home the main prize (YAY for Simon!) The field was pretty crowded with singing and dancing acts and the TOP 3 placers are all singing acts.

During the voting period, Little Mix performed their current single “Salute” with BGT 2009 winners, dance troupe Diversity (The group that beat Susan Boyle!) and X Factor judge Cheryl Cole returned to the music scene with her brand new single “Crazy Stupid Love”. Unfortunately, no videos were uploaded by ITV and Fremantle quickly pulled down one low quality video of Little Mix and Diversity. Ella Henderson performed her debut single “Ghost” during the first semifinal last Monday and one sped up video was all I could find on YouTube. Ella’s single will be released on iTunes UK in about two hours.

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So Simon has a pop boy band (1D), an opera boy band (Il Divo), a country boy band (Restless Road) and now a classical boy band.

What’s next?

kcostell

The whole “Got Talent” format is a bit crazy. To win their £250,000, Collabro gave a grand total of three performances (audition, semi-final, final), running about 8 minutes total. And one of those was a reprise!

tripp_ncwy

I didn’t think Simon signed Restless Road? Last I saw they were still looking for a deal after they replaced one member.

EvilTroyandEvilAbed

Little Mix and Diversity dominated. This was their night. Showed up Cheryl, that’s for sure.

springboard2

And he had a very successful UK boyband, Westlife, for years. Boybands are definitely his strength .. with novelty acts…

Face

performing on BGT seemed to help Little Mix on UK iTunes… they are currently at 10… Ella is already at number 1 and it’s only 8am… so 8 hours since it was released… guess there were a lot of pre-orders!

Face

indeed… however (in UK at least) at least one of these popera / classical crossover type singers / groups comes does well off this show on the album charts… last year it was the brothers Richard & Adam who had a number 1 album within 7 weeks of coming 3rd in the 2013 BGT final… it was #1 for 4 weeks in the UK that summer and went gold… in 2012 the 2nd place getters Jonathan and Charlotte had an album in the charts in Sept (4 months later)… so, I expect Collabro to have their album out by this Autumn…

Face

one of them was in a boyband on UK XF in 2007 (season 4)… if memory serves me right, it was the shows 1st attempt at creating a boyband out of soloists that didn’t make it past bootcamp…